Hess v. Lackey’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 1987 · most notably 169 Ind. App. 624 - SECO CHEMICALS, INC., ETC. v. Stewart (1976), Voelkel v. Tohulka (1957)
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Knight & Jillson Co. v. Castle · Fowler Utilities Co. v. Gray · Copeland v. Summers · Clodfelter v. Hulett · Reed v. Adams Steel & Wire Works
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The language used imports throughout an intention that all of the eight surviving children of Rachael A. Lackey, named in her will as the only beneficiaries thereunder, should sign the contract. The declared purpose of the agreement was to give to the children of the deceased son a child’s portion, which could not be accomplished unless all of the eight legatees signed it. And there is nothing in the instrument to evidence an intention that the contract should bind those signing it until and unless it was signed by all of the eight legatees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.